Career & Technical Ed
Posts by Adam Renfro
EdTech
Educreations: Adding Value to the Classroom
Double your capacity as a teacher. Let students learn from your own video as you navigate through the room acting as the facilitator to your own instruction, keeping students on task and providing live support where needed.
EdTech
It’s the Right Place and Right Time for Geo-location Timelines
myHistro Extended is an engaging “DO” activity for students. It’s important for students to be able to construct a narrative and have the skills to deliver that narrative visually. They also need to be able to visualize change over time. The app allows students to organize information in their timelines (text content, dates, geo-location, links, images, videos) and showcase their finished products.
EdTech
The Viral Mentor
What drives people to create how-to, instructional, and DIY videos? Are they so passionate about their niche, their expertise, that they just have this desire to tutor others? That definitely sounds like the mentor archetype. There’s a little bit of Sal Khan in all of them and all of us.
Personalized Learning
The Super Diploma
A particular Gen Z group has emerged as the super achievers, and I don’t mean just in the classroom. They have have launched their own startups and are serious content creators.
Personalized Learning
Yes-People
It’s true that "yes" people have the most unsuccessful attempts at things in life. There’s no denying that. They also have the most success, the most inventions, the most successful startups, the most daring rescues, the most discoveries.
Personalized Learning
A School’s Digital Report Card
It can certainly be frustrating to a parent whose child does not have access to digital learning, but kids across the street (in a different school district) do. The difference? The principal.
EdTech
Lulu: The Way to Self Publishing
Instead of waiting for some magic gatekeeper to accept them, people can publish when they are ready, and in turn, we get to see new and different things that we might never see in a bookstore.
Leadership
Q&A: Connecting to Community
Building frameworks around community and student needs is essential. In simple terms, identify resources and needs in the communities and tie projects to the classroom learning. Make the curriculum real.
Personalized Learning
Time’s Person of the Year: (It Should Be) The Crowd
Crowdsourcing has had its greatest impact on funding, knowledge collection and curation, and creation and production. All of these are key issues for today’s educators, both at the leadership level and in the classroom. Gen Z students were born in the middle of this crowdsourcing phenomenon, except they don’t recognize it as a phenomenon. It is what it is, just part of their world.
Personalized Learning
Power Management: A New Step in Digital Citizenship
Power management should be a tenant of digital citizenship. Being a good digital citizen is the passport to the modern world, and staying charged and connected is certainly at the base level.